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"Color" Picture of the Emir of Bukhara
# A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911. This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire.
# It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, green and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color image.
# Emir Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan (January 3, 1880–April 28, 1944) was the last emir of the Manghit dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. He was the last ruling descendant of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan.
# Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russian Empire from 1873, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch and reigned from January 3, 1911 to August 30, 1920.
# At the age of 13 Alim Khan went to St. Petersburg for 3 years to study government and modern military techniques. In 1896 he received a formal confirmation as a crown prince of Bukhara.
# In March 1918 activists of the Young Bukharan Movement (Yeni Bukharlylar) informed the Bolsheviks that the Bukharans were ready for the revolution and that the people were awaiting liberation. The Red Army
marched to the gates of Bukhara and demanded that the emir surrender the city to the Young Bukharans. As Russian sources report, the emir responded by killing the Bolshevik delegation, along with several hundred Russian supporters of the Bolsheviks in Bukhara and the surrounding territories. The Bolshevik army fled back to the Soviet stronghold at Tashkent.
# As the civil war in Russia wound down, Moscow sent reinforcements to Central Asia. On 2 September 1920, an army of well-disciplined and well equipped Red Army troops under the command of Bolshevik general Mikhail Frunze attacked the city. After four days of fighting, Alim Khan’s citadel was destroyed, the Red Flag was raised from the top of Kalyan Minaret. Alim Khan was forced to flee to his base at Dushanbe (in present-day Tajikistan), to Kabul in Afghanistan, where he died in 1944.
# He is buried at the Shuadoi Solehin cemetery.
"Color" Picture of the Emir of Bukhara
# A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911. This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire.
# It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, green and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color image.
# Emir Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan (January 3, 1880–April 28, 1944) was the last emir of the Manghit dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. He was the last ruling descendant of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan.
# Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russian Empire from 1873, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch and reigned from January 3, 1911 to August 30, 1920.
# At the age of 13 Alim Khan went to St. Petersburg for 3 years to study government and modern military techniques. In 1896 he received a formal confirmation as a crown prince of Bukhara.
# In March 1918 activists of the Young Bukharan Movement (Yeni Bukharlylar) informed the Bolsheviks that the Bukharans were ready for the revolution and that the people were awaiting liberation. The Red Army
marched to the gates of Bukhara and demanded that the emir surrender the city to the Young Bukharans. As Russian sources report, the emir responded by killing the Bolshevik delegation, along with several hundred Russian supporters of the Bolsheviks in Bukhara and the surrounding territories. The Bolshevik army fled back to the Soviet stronghold at Tashkent.
# As the civil war in Russia wound down, Moscow sent reinforcements to Central Asia. On 2 September 1920, an army of well-disciplined and well equipped Red Army troops under the command of Bolshevik general Mikhail Frunze attacked the city. After four days of fighting, Alim Khan’s citadel was destroyed, the Red Flag was raised from the top of Kalyan Minaret. Alim Khan was forced to flee to his base at Dushanbe (in present-day Tajikistan), to Kabul in Afghanistan, where he died in 1944.
# He is buried at the Shuadoi Solehin cemetery.